CHEW – The Roleplaying Game

CHEW: The Roleplaying Game uses the Forged in the Dark system, a narrative-focused framework where players describe actions in the fiction first and then resolve them with small pools of six-sided dice, taking the highest result to determine success, complications, or failure. Gameplay revolves around assessing risk (“position”) and potential impact (“effect”), while characters manage stress and consequences to push themselves during tense situations. Built for fast, story-driven play, the system emphasizes collaborative storytelling, improvisation, and momentum, with CHEW adding investigative structure, bizarre food-powered abilities, and case-based progression on top of the core mechanics.